Heraclitus wrote: “Upon those who step into the same rivers, different and again different waters flow” (fragment B12). The famous “you can’t step in the same river twice” is a later version. Read slowly, he’s saying something stranger: the river stays the same because the water doesn’t.
Step in. Then try to keep it exactly as it is.
The river stays a river because the water keeps changing. Hold everything still and you don’t keep the river. You get a pond.
Ask yourself. What are you trying to keep the same that only stays alive by changing?
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